Talk:Midna Garden
Bulbapedia only uses common, rare, ect. Everything else on the official Routes/Named Routes always equals 100. The only time they use percentages is when it's on their Hidden Grotto page.
Also doesn't account for when you get no items, so it doesn't really make sense. This is also why their Rock Smash encounters do not include percentages for items/nothing, and instead equals 100. Xbser (talk) 05:08, 26 January 2015 (CET)
Perhaps the "Nothing" was the glitch, haven't tested it just talking to people on IRC, where just the sprites weren't appearing, nonetheless this is how bulbapedia does it. Xbser (talk) 05:08, 26 January 2015 (CET)
Also, aren't Hidden Grotto Pokémon suppose to have their HAs? Is this purposely disabled or an oversight? Xbser (talk) 05:16, 26 January 2015 (CET)
I actually can't understand why bulbapedia didn't simply exclude the chance of not finding anything when doing the grotto listings. Like, there's a chance that the trainer doesn't find anything whenever they walk in a cave, for example, but that's never taken into account when listing normal encounter percentages. It seems sloppy to simply list them without exact percentages, but then again I guess it's less confusing than having to consider what percentage of the total is comprised by wild items/Pokémon. I honestly don't know if it's possible to get Nothing from the grottoes in Insurgence, but regardless it just seems like the same principle of overall encounter rate when walking through the grass.
Their Rock Smash example confuses me because I can't find any source of information that indicates that the item and Pokémon percentages are dependent on each other (i.e. if it's possible to have a wild Pokémon encounter and also find an item beneath the rock with 1 Rock Smash). If they are dependent then having them use separate methods for listing grotto encounter and Rock Smash encounter percentages doesn't make sense to me. I'd personally prefer to see the uncommon/common, etc. listing used for Rock Smash here as well because it's effectively using the same system.
The HAs bit could be either purposely disabled or an oversight, it's hard to tell when suze actually differentiates between the two.(1ofthe4rocketbros (talk) 05:42, 26 January 2015 (CET))
